Description

1934 World Wide Gum Uncut Sheet of Seventy-Two Cards.
Discouraged by taunts that they were behind the times, the Canadian
World Wide Gum manufacturers abandoned the design of the 1933
Goudey issue at the midway point, offering the contemporary '34
style from card number forty-nine to ninety-six. And so our
neighbors to the north became the beneficiaries of the "Lou Gehrig
says..." advice, in both French and English, on the verso, the only
way that these cards vary from the American issue. On the face,
this incredible sheet is a dead ringer for the 1934 Goudey. And
while we'd be thrilled to have just that second forty-eight in a
single sheet, this one repeats seventy-three to ninety-six,
offering duplicates of every card from John "Blondy" Ryan through
John Allen. Happily, this range includes Hall of Famers Hafey,
Lombardi, Appling, Earnshaw and Lou Gehrig himself, so that each of
these pre-war legends appears twice on the sheet. Lest we forget
those who appear only once, we should note that cards forty-nine
through seventy-two feature Terry, Grove, Dizzy Dean, Klein,
Gehringer, Foxx, Cochrane, Frisch, Paul Waner, Manush, Durocher,
Vaughan and Hubbell. That's twenty-three Hall of Fame cards total!
A masterful color and paper restoration job has diminished the
signs of wear almost to the point of invisibility, but if you look
very closely you can spot a seam that runs the length of the second
column of cards, and various other scattered wrinkles throughout.
But again, like cards one through forty-eight offered in the
previous lot, the bright coloring of the cards leaves the
impression of a factory-fresh sheet from any reasonable distance.

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